Coffee cultivation in Sri Lanka was abandoned because of the disease
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- Aleaf blight
- Bleaf spot
- Cleaf rustCorrect
- Drot
Explanation
The correct answer is C because coffee cultivation in Sri Lanka was devastated by a fungal disease known as coffee leaf rust, caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix. In the late 19th century, specifically starting around 1869, this disease spread rapidly across the island. It destroyed the vast coffee plantations, forcing the British colonial economy to shift from coffee to tea production. This event is one of the most famous examples of a monoculture being wiped out by a single pathogen.
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